Yo, V-Land Freaks

[Henry M]

The drug passages are not necessarily any more indicative of the 
author's personal experience than are the sex scenes.

Zappa always claimed to have never done any drug stronger than pot. 
But I've always wondered.

> From:          stencil at bcn.net (stencil)
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject:       Re: Yo, V-Land Freaks
> Date:          Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:55:52 GMT
> Organization:  20 Mingeboro Rd.

> 
> On Sun, 12 Jan 1997  at 11:26:58 -0700, Steelhead chucked the
> handshoe:
> 
> >All you V-land freaks. I challenge you to come up with 
> >a better passage than the above.
> No takers here.  Better than a Bacon painting.
> >All you who say Pynch never dropped acid. Read the above again [...]
> Not to say "never" is not to say "did".  The case, still open, is
> still inferential.  What testimony we do have is not positive.
> Besides...: long before the Aptos years, when Huxley's essays were
> giving the nihil obstat to experimentation while stressing the
> effectiveness of nonchemical tools, TRP seems already to have
> developed a fondness for finessing experience through listening,
> study, and thought.  The tool may have felt sharp enough that, come
> the '60s and the chance to go to Frisco, buy a wig, and sleep on
> Owlsley's floor, TRP would have passed by the more extreme diversions.
> Prudence there, not fear, the way a musician would walk the hills but
> pass up a chance to do a little rockclimbing.
> 
> >Someone may be listening. Someone my have their tape
> >recording running. Newt, I'm with you on that one buddy.
> No "may be" about it. Every word, every character, every bit.  Never
> ever believe the shuck about excessive volume prev 
> acidbombClintondetonatethylenefulguraganjahypergoliciodide
> ...scuse me, gotta go, somebody's at the doo
> 
> 
> 
> 


My mother was of the sky... -- JL
My mother is the war...
Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
Not having that, which having... :-|

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